Les mistons (1957)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 18m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Gérard Blain, Michel François, Bernadette Lafont
Synopsis:
Five boys in Arles torment the beautiful girl they long for on her bicycle, as she lives her first tragic experience of love.
Review:
Truffaut's first film is as unsentimentalized a view of childhood as you can get, and clearly paved the way for Les 400 coups. The boys are undifferentiated, however, more an amorphous mass of seething hormones and mischievousness, barely comprehending the forces that are buffeting them. The film-making is as crude as you might expect, on 16mm black and white with post-synchronized sound, and the film, based on a book, has one of those voiceover narrations that would later become typical of its director's work. It remains, however, a fresh and rewarding piece of work.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 18m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Gérard Blain, Michel François, Bernadette Lafont
Synopsis:
Five boys in Arles torment the beautiful girl they long for on her bicycle, as she lives her first tragic experience of love.
Review:
Truffaut's first film is as unsentimentalized a view of childhood as you can get, and clearly paved the way for Les 400 coups. The boys are undifferentiated, however, more an amorphous mass of seething hormones and mischievousness, barely comprehending the forces that are buffeting them. The film-making is as crude as you might expect, on 16mm black and white with post-synchronized sound, and the film, based on a book, has one of those voiceover narrations that would later become typical of its director's work. It remains, however, a fresh and rewarding piece of work.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 18m
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Gérard Blain, Michel François, Bernadette Lafont
Synopsis:
Five boys in Arles torment the beautiful girl they long for on her bicycle, as she lives her first tragic experience of love.
Review:
Truffaut's first film is as unsentimentalized a view of childhood as you can get, and clearly paved the way for Les 400 coups. The boys are undifferentiated, however, more an amorphous mass of seething hormones and mischievousness, barely comprehending the forces that are buffeting them. The film-making is as crude as you might expect, on 16mm black and white with post-synchronized sound, and the film, based on a book, has one of those voiceover narrations that would later become typical of its director's work. It remains, however, a fresh and rewarding piece of work.